Monday, April 27, 2009

Mabuhay "Welcome" Home

We have a house! Lee and I have not lived in a house since we’ve been married, just hotel after hotel, so we are thrilled to finally have a house! I went looking for houses in our neighborhood, Nueva Villa, with the realtor Lina. Lina is a little, tiny and quite sassy filipino woman; she pretty much runs the neighborhood. All questions and problems are handled by Lina, all 105 pounds of her.

So Lina took me to look at houses... most of them were awful... Exhibit A... or B... or C...

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Exhibit C

Yes, sadly there are such things as multi-color mini-blinds.

Everyone from Lee’s company lives in the same neighborhood and they had been telling me about the “Zen House.” They call it the Zen house because of all the water falls and rock gardens, it’s very Japanese... very Zen :) Finally, she took me to see it and it was a million times better than anything else I had seen that day. So later, Lina and I took Lee by a few of the houses... just so he could see how great the Zen house is by comparison, and we decided to get the house. So here are a few pics... Lee and I will do another video walk through once everything gets put away.

Chicago

I began writing The Undomesticated Housewife in April of 2009 when my husband Lee and I moved to the Philippines. It's been a year since we moved back home, and we are starting a new chapter of our lives in Chicago. I decided to get back to blogging and chronicle our adventures in the Windy City. Stay Tuned!